Transport Info

Tube : Green Park (Picadilly, Jubilee & Victoria line).

A Royal Country has to have a Royal palace and a Royal art place. This can be found at the Royal Academy.

The place hosts mainly main exhibition but there is also a permanent collection which focuses on British art and artists and predominantly ranges from the 18th century to the present day. Highlights in the collection of paintings and sculpture include major works by Reynolds,
Gainsborough,
Turner,
Constable,
Alma-Tadema, Flaxman, Millais, Leighton,
Waterhouse, Sargent, Spencer and Hockney.

The Royal Academy of Arts was founded through a personal act of King George III on 10 December 1768 with a mission to promote the arts of design in Britain through education and exhibition. The motive in founding the Academy was twofold: to raise the professional status of the artist by establishing a sound system of training and expert judgment in the arts and to arrange the exhibition of contemporary works of art attaining an appropriate standard of excellence.